I was just looking at the 15 program icons on my Linux desktop and noticed that 12 of them are cross-platform applications which also operate in Windows. The three Linux-only programs are Digikam (photo organiser), Bluefish (web editor) and Kontact (organiser/email). The 12 cross-platform applications are: Firefox (web browser) OpenOffice (office suite) The Gimp (image [...]
Malignant freeware
After getting a new Windows Vista PC I visited my favorite freeware site to look for a free FTP program to upload files to my various web sites. I’ve used the open source FileZilla in the past, but had some issues with large transfers dropping out. Anyway, I had to upload WordPress today for the [...]
Feed aggregators
I’ve tried quite a few RSS feed aggregators – software versions and web sites – but I've never stuck with any of them for more than a few days. That's partly because I switch between Linux and Windows, home and work too regularly to build content and maintain loyalty. I have found one though, called Gregarius, that I might [...]
Online data storage
A recent development in the constantly changing world of the internet has been the proliferation of data storage services. Placing documents, pictures, music or videos online used to involve a convoluted process of file transfer using specialised software and it required the user to have their own domain. That led to the creation of social [...]
Gentoo Linux
My Kanotix installation died on me last week. It was a self-inflicted fatality; suicide in other words. I went for over a month without upgrading the distro, just updating software instead. I finally went ahead and the system shock was all too much. I had the black screen of death, but it locked on me [...]
